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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

time to start getting festive

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• three freshly-groomed pomeranians wearing holiday scarves (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

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• In several cases, the guns wound up in the hands of violent felons and were used to commit crimes including drug trafficking, international arms dealing and, in one case, the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy attending a high school football game.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

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• A CBS News investigation found dozens of law enforcement leaders - sheriffs, captains, lieutenants, chiefs of police - buying and illegally selling firearms, even weapons of war, across 23 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., from the Deep South to the Midwest, Northeast and California coast.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime - CBS News:

"“If I’m guilty of this, every cop in the nation’s going to jail,” Wendt told CBS News just days before a federal judge sentenced him to a 5-year prison term."

Agreed. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-selling-restricted-guns-posties/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

jbigham@hci.social ("Jeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥") wrote:

@cmuhcii her first project with me (and former PhD student @jsonwu) was on using LLMs to customize user interfaces :: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3586182.3616671

then she worked with us on a synthetic UI generation paper accepted to EECV:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-72691-0_26

and a paper about automating UI design feedback accepted to UIST:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3654777.3676408

2/n

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

jbigham@hci.social ("Jeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥") wrote:

congratulations to Amanda Li for successfully defending her Masters Thesis yesterday at @cmuhcii

Amanda has worked on a variety of different ML+User Interface Understanding projects while at CMU, most recently looking to understand how GUIs have changed over time, and how that affects design, accessibility, and ML modeling of them.

she is applying for PhD programs now, and you should recruit her!

1/n

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• amanda at her talk, titled, "WaybackUI: A Dataset to Support the Longitudinal Analysis of User Interfaces" (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

finally killed a nasty & obscure client text-rendering bug… after trying off-and-on for a couple of months. it took me examining hex representations of the data payloads flowing to a service POST operation & then back as results to the client. fooooooook.

the web-based client for my seekrit project service is now properly rendering non-ASCII UTF8 glyphs (like ñ & ű) instead of filtering them out & throwing them away like a barbarian (aka: the “Brute Force & Bloody Ignorance” approach to coding)

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• rabbit massaging pain in neck and looking pained (remote)

Reblogged by jwz:

eldadoinquieto@mastorol.es ("El Dado Inquieto") wrote:

@nyrath It's easy to think about this ⬇️

https://www.badspacecomics.com/post/free-mars

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

From Anthony Fantano on his YouTube channel: Union-busting, plus racist and sexist “jokes” including comments about lynching by dev team, at Distrokid. https://youtu.be/hz0_rWImSaM?si=C73dq1RHo9BSJyuG

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhhhh, yes. near one of my favorite places in the world

https://youtube.com/live/urwrrLP0t3k?feature=shared

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Two idiots have grand plans for wrecking the USA.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/05/musk-and-ramaswamy-are-not-qualified-or-disinterested-in-their-plans/

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• Musk & Ramaswamy's plans for dismantling government organizations (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

astro@webtoo.ls ("Astro") wrote:

Do you know how image srcset and sizes work?
Me neither. And you shouldn’t have to.

Let layout="responsive" find the right values based on your source image, no config needed ✨

Now experimental in 5.0

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• A video showing the effects of adding `layout: "responsive"` to a component, including the generated HTML output. Ends with the text "Responsive images now in v5" (remote)

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we wish a Happy Repeal of Prohibition Day to all who celebrate.
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/12/05.html

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• Screenshot

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

JasonAnthonyGuy ("Jason Anthony Guy") wrote:

Tsunami warning? WTF?

#earthquake #tsunami #sanfrancisco

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• Screenshot: Emergency Alert 2m ago The National Weather Service has issued a TSUNAMI WARNING. A series of powerful waves and strong currents may impact coasts near you. You are in danger. Get away from coastal waters. Move to high ground or inland now. Keep away from the coast until local officials say it is safe to return.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Corporate America politics are fucking terrible.

It’s hard enough just doing your job, but then you also must keep your eye out for that one person who read 48 Laws of Power once, and now thinks email jobs are some machiavellian chess match.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

CEO Tried to Navigate Hate Incident By Telling Staff His Mentor Was a KKK Member:

"More than 150 employees at the cloud services giant Digital Ocean protested last year after its CEO explained in an all-hands meeting that his former mentor was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, which he said shows how employees can work together despite holding different beliefs." https://www.404media.co/email/12f2e486-e76b-48d0-94d0-da2679f52182/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

Introducing: "my so-called sudo life"

a new #blog series tracking my journey towards greater digital sovereignty.

"Instead of wallowing in this grief and anger, I have resolved to make this time – these 4 years – matter. It makes me feel better and more empowered to set some high goals, so that by January 2029 I could look back and think to myself: I have grown and helped others during these tumultuous 4 years. I made good use of that time."

https://elenarossini.com/2024/12/introducing-my-so-called-sudo-life/

follow the blog: @ele

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

lindsey@recurse.social ("Lindsey Kuper") wrote:

It's finally done! 🎉 I am so excited to announce "Communicating Chorrectly with a Choreography", the first zine from my research group!

Read online and print your own free copies: https://decomposition.al/zines/

Thread! 👇

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• A stack of printed color copies of "Communicating Chorrectly with a Choreography" by Ali Ali and Lindsey Kuper. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Ready, aim, FIRE THE WEB GUN!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/05/sproing-oing-oing/

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• A) Untensed web shown from front view. (B) Tensed web shown from side view. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Israel is a genocidal regime, there is no credible argument otherwise.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/05/are-you-still-denying-that-israel-is-genocidal/

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• Israel's desolation (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

it is the time of year to confess & shed myself of sins:

I am a mass murderer.

I let that poor yeast culture starve in the back of the fridge. an entire culture destroyed, en masse. 😿 so very sad.

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• 8b03c448fafbf7df.jpeg (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Steal your art directly from the British Museum, rather than letting AI do it for you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/05/who-needs-ai/

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• Moche spider from the 6th-7th century (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"I see you were fond of playing the Devil's Advocate," Saint Peter said.

"Er... The name isn't really..."

"No, I know. 'Devil's Advocate' is a specific job, and that is allowed."

"So I'm good?"

"No, because you weren't doing that specific job, you were just being a dick online."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Time for the annual State of Rust Survey! 📝✨

Whether you've just begun using Rust, are an experienced Rust user, stopped using Rust, or might use Rust in the future, we'd like to hear from you!

Available in seven languages and open until December 23rd:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/12/05/annual-survey-2024-launch.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats - POLITICO Magazine (2014):

"And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last."

A decade later, the rich decided to instead build bunkers. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ieure@retro.social ("egregious philbin") wrote:

Hardware that promotes good posture: ergonomic

Software that provokes bad attitudes: aggronomic

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

Mechanically impossible yet highly accurate.

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• 7325599c54b74843.jpg (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yes, I am a Zappatista

the world is a dimmer place without ya, Frank

https://music.apple.com/us/album/inca-roads/1440928474?i=1440928876

Reblogged by jwz:

QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

While making tens of billions in profit, UnitedHealth fired its intake team & enacted faulty AI tech to process claims. It rejected more than 90% of claims for senior citizens, resulting in several deaths b/c elders didn't get the critical meds they needed.

Just thought I'd share for no reason.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

Defiance@sfba.social ("Defiance!") wrote:

Neo Boys - “Under Control” (1982)

One of the best bands from the early 80s underground scene of Portland, Oregon. They were an all female group featuring two teenage sisters on vocals and bass.

They were active from 1978-1983 and released very few recordings during this time. But a retrospective compilation album released by the always awesome K Records in 2013 brings together all their official releases, and a ton more demos, outtakes, etc. I like that this anthology comp is arranged chronologically, since their sound evolved / improved over their five year existence.

This track is from around 1982 and is one of my favorites.

#PunkRock #PostPunk #Indie #music #Portland

https://neoboys.bandcamp.com/track/under-control